Re: [Crawl-ref-discuss] [crawl-ref-discuss] Vampires

[Jarmo K. <jar...@cs...>]

On Mon, 23 Jul 2007, jp...@mi... wrote:

> Hey, sorry about the silence - I've been offline reading Harry Potter. :p

I fully understant, I have little sister who is doing exactly same thing :)

> To recap your comments:
> 
> * Vampires can't mutate :(
> Instead they'll rot like Mummies and Ghouls, right? Should this also happen
> when drinking mutagenic blood, or can anyone think of a cooler effect?

Yes, rotting sounds good because that is what other undead get.

> In effect, vampires will have similar resistances like Mummies/Ghouls (cold,
> life protection, susceptible to fire) when hungry/starving and also have no or
> very little regeneration which will increase as they drink blood. Should poison
> resistance only be available to hungry vampires?
> Hmm... I guess we need to make these effects pan out somehow from starving over
> hungry and satiated to full. Ideas?

Poisoning could just increase hunger rate. I like the idea that anything
that would hurt only living things, and not undeads, affects only vampires
satiation. Also draining attacks and maybe even tormentation could just drain
food from vampire. So for vampires life protection would be food protection ;)

This would mean that they are not poison resistant but poison doesn't affect
starving vampires.

          starving hungry satiated full
life prot   +++     ++       +      0

It might be simpler if vampires don't have any other resistances.

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Jarmo Kielosto